Forbidden vs Illegal - What's the difference?
forbidden | illegal |
not allowed.
* 1999 , Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind , page 276
Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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, title= Forbidden by established rules.
(philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
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# (chiefly, US, sometimes, offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
(colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
An illegal resident spy.
* 2012 , , ‘Colder War’, Literary Review , issue 399:
Illegal is a antonym of forbidden.
As adjectives the difference between forbidden and illegal
is that forbidden is not allowed while illegal is contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.As a verb forbidden
is past participle of lang=en.As a noun illegal is
an illegal immigrant.forbidden
English
(wikipedia forbidden)Adjective
(en adjective)- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden' .
Synonyms
* prohibitedillegal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal , and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Usage notes
The use of "illegal" to describe a person rather than an action is often regarded as offensive.https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/03-5Synonyms
* (forbidden by law) criminal, felonious, illicit, unlawful * (totally fictitious) bogusAntonyms
* (forbidden by law) lawful, legalDerived terms
* illegal alien * illegal immigrantNoun
(en noun)- Anna Chapman, whose glamorous appearance won her more publicity in the Western media than all the other illegals combined, was so successfully deceived by a US sting operation that she handed over her SVR laptop to an FBI agent posing as a Russian.